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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. TYLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,922, dated February9, 1897.

Application filed June 10, 1896. Serial N0. 594,949. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. TYLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which thefollow.- ing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in gloves; and it consists of thenovel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan View of the front or palm side of myimproved glove. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the back of the glove. Fig.3 is aplan view of the blank for the lower part or body of the glove.Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank for the upper part or fingers of theglove. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the thumb-blank. Fig. 6 is a plan viewof one of the six fourchettes.

The object of my invention is to easilyand cheaply produce a glovehaving the parts most exposed to wear made more durable than theless-exposed parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the glove-body or hand portionwithout fingers and thumb and made of comparatively thin material.

0 represents the thumb, B the finger portion of the glove, andD one ofthe fourchettes, each made in a separate piece from the body portion Aand of comparatively thick and durable material.

The thumb is secured in a thumb-aperture in the body portion of theglove in the usual manner.

The finger portion comprises a single piece provided with individualsheaths for the several fingers and is joined to the body portion of theglove bya seam extending transversely of the glove in any known manner.

My invention is especially adapted for gloves made of silk, cotton,lisle-thread, wool, or other textile fabric, and in such gloves it isdesirable to have the body or hand portion of the glove sufficientlyelastic to permit the glove to be easily applied to and removed from thehand and also to fit the hand in use. For this reason I prefer to havethe seam by which the body and finger portions of the glove are joinedextend in a devious line transversely of the glove.

The seam S is shown extending in a sinuous line across the glove, theadjoining edges of the body and finger portions being respectivelyconcaved and convexed on the back and respectively concaved-and conveXedon the front of the glove. The line of union is thus made much longerthan the transverse dimensions of the glove, whereby the elasticity ofthe fabric is not destroyed by the seam.

A glove is most exposed to wear at its extremities, and by'makin g theattached thumb, fourchettes, and finger portions of comparatively thickand durable material I am able to greatly increase the wearing qualitiesof the glove.

By joining the upper and lower parts of the glove by a seam, aspreviously described, I am able to make a much more perfect-fittingglove than heretofore.

I am aware that it has been heretofore proposed to secure to thebodyportion of a glove finger-pieces of material differing from thematerial of the body; but it was also pro- .posed to have a separateindividual piece or pieces for each finger, which pieces were to beseparately secured to the body by stitching. Since none of the fingersare of the same length, the finger-pieces to be secured to theglove-body are not interchangeable, and very much valuable time would belost in the selection of the proper finger-piece to be secured in eachfinger-opening in the body, and even with extraordinary care mistakeswould frequently occur which would render the glove unsalable. By havingall the finger-pieces connected by a single piece common to and integralwith each finger-piece no time is wasted in selection, and no mistakenarrangement of the finger-pieces can happen, and no objection able seamis formed at the junction .of the finger and hand portions which wouldtend to hurt the hand of the wearer when closed upon such seams. It

has also been proposed to secure to the hand portion a Wrist-piece belowthe thumb; but I do not claim such constructions.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A glove consisting of a hand portion, finger-pieces, diifering inmaterial fironi. the hand portion, and an attaching portion integralwith, and common to, each finger-piece,

secured to the hand portion above the thumb :o by a transverse seam,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of June,1896.

WM. I-I. TYLER. \Vitnesses:

O. A. VVADLEY, ARTHUR 0. Ports.

